“I couldn’t keep hoping, and then waking up every day and finding out it wasn’t true, and you were still gone. You don’t understand.” My throat is right I feel as though I’m being strangled. Anytime Alex spoke to another girl or ignored her, she’d go running into Julian’s arms, as if she was trying to make Alex jealous. I didn’t like how she used Julian as a rebound when Alex rejected her. I didn’t like how she thought she could run back into his arms. I didn’t like how she expected things to suddenly be okay between her and Alex. I honestly couldn’t help but think that she didn’t deserve Alex’s forgiveness. I really didn’t like Lena for the first half of Requiem. The Resistance really dominates this book-struggling to stay alive and finding new places to strike. It is an intense conclusion to the series, with a lot at stake, and a lot to fight for. I had a couple ups and downs with Requiem, but at the end of the day, I enjoyed it. The two girls live side by side in a world that divides them until, at last, their stories converge. Requiem is told from both Lena's and Hana's points of view. Regulators now infiltrate the borderlands to stamp out the rebels, and as Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous terrain, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland as the fiancée of the young mayor. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven-pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the government cannot deny the existence of Invalids. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.Īfter rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. Published by: HarperTeen on March 5, 2013

Requiem by lauren oliver